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Swan was Christmas dinner in European Royal courts until 1851, when turkey replaced it.  A mandarin orange tree bears between 5- to 6-thousand fruit in a favourable year.  Built in 1974 by Terex in London, ON, the Titan is still the world’s largest truck. From Memorial University of Newfoundland to the University of Victoria, 1.7 million students attended school last year. Education is important but other stuff is more importanter.  The Universal Serial Bus, a.k.a. the USB, was invented in 1966.  Costa Ricans feast on tamales on Christmas Day.  Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick and Québec are no-fault car insurance provinces.  On this date in 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne.  I despise AutoCorrect. It can go to He’ll.  Today is International Human Rights Day, observed across the globe. In The Philippines, Christmas runs from 16 December to the first Sunday of the New Year. The hardness if tur...

A mari usque ad mare, 37 million mark Canada’s 151st birthday with parades, picnics and fireworks. Citizens of Burundi, Rwanda and Somalia mark their independence days this July 1st. The fewest babies are born in the month of February. It is estimated that as many as 20,000 shipwrecks lay in watery graves, off the coast of Atlantic Canada. Our main exports are hockey stars and cold fronts. Our #1 imports are baseball players and acid rain. ~ Pierre Trudeau A third of Montréalers change residences on July 1st, earning the unofficial holiday nickname of ‘Moving Day’. Camel's milk is richer in iron, vitamins, minerals and contains less fat than cow’s milk. Titanium has the highest tensile strength to density ratio of any metal; Tungsten ranks #2. Flying high over the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada’s largest flag measures 18 metres by nine. Canada is America’s attic.  Mormons worship in 159 temples in more than 40 countries-11 more are cu...